Between Two Kings (Split or Swallow, #2)

by Lindsay Straube

“I’ll always come when you call,” she said quietly.

Caspen smiled. “It is easy,” he whispered, “to worship you.”

“It is not such a bad thing, Temperance,” she murmured. “To have two men fall at your feet.”

You are their queen. A moment passed. Then: You are my queen.

“How can you always think the best of me?” “Because you are the best of me,” he said simply.

That’s not flirting. You’re just ordering me around. Some would consider that flirting. Not me. Most women would. And those women would have let me fuck them by now.

Fuck you. I would like to.

“I thought it would have faded by now.” “Thought what would have faded by now?” “Your infatuation with him.”

“Do as you wish, Tem. You always do.”

want you all the fucking time. How can that be? How can you take up so much space in my mind?”

“I am not. I should know you better by now.”

yeah he should know shes a HOE

Caspen’s head snapped up, and a chill shot down Tem’s spine. “Do not,” he said, his voice deathly quiet, “call me that.”

Leo stepped closer. “Because I can’t breathe when I look at you. Because it hurts”—he pressed his hands to his chest—“right here.”

“Your infatuation with the human prince has gone on far too long. You should have learned your place long ago. It is right here, by my side. If you do not understand that by now, I doubt you ever will.”

“I am saying that you are the love of my life. But I am done accommodating the love of yours.”

“I was your first love, Tem,” Caspen whispered. “He will be your last.”

It has been the greatest honor of my life to love you. I only hope I was worthy of your love in return.

I swear I feel worse every day I’m not with you. It’s like I need to touch you, and if I don’t, I’ll die. Do you feel that too? Or do I yearn alone?